The controversy generated by the introduction of health bill in both chambers of the National Assembly is yet to think out. TAIYE ODEWALE writes. The first of such emanated from the House of Representatives sponsored by the Speaker, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, along with two other lawmakers, namely Hon Pascal Obi and Hon Tanko Sununu as co – sponsors. Titled “A Read More
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Monday said it will take at least six weeks to put out the raging fire at the Ororo oilfield of the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 95. The Director-General of NOSDRA, Musa Idris, who confirmed that the fire outbreak started at the weekend, said that a joint investigative visit to ascertain Read More
All stations under the brand name of NNPC Retail Limited operate are under very high safety standards as endorsed by the Federal Fire Service and the Department of Petroleum Resources, NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, has said. The Corporation’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Thursday quoted the Managing Director of the NNPC Read More
Spain saw its third consecutive daily decline in the number of people dying from the coronavirus pandemic as the country recorded another 674 deaths on Sunda, official figures showed. The health ministry said the number, the lowest in 10 days, brought total deaths to 12,418 since the pandemic hit Spain. The number of infections rose 4.8 percent to 130,759. AFP
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The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has urged the federal government to distribute health essentials, food and money to citizens to curtail the hardship being suffered as a result policy directives on the coronavirus pandemic. The NYCN, in a statement issued by its national president, Solomon Adodo and made available to journalists, Thursday, said much as the stay-at-home Read More
Barely 24 hours after five new case were recorded, Lagos state government has made public four new cases of coronavirus. The state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, just disclosed this in a press conference. Meanwhile, the 24th convocation ceremony of the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo has been postponed indefinitely. The decision was in response to the rampaging coronavirus Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari’s vision of taking 10 million Nigerians out poverty every year for the next ten years is on course and would be actualized by the quantum leap in human capacity development attainments, especially healthcare, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said. Osinbajo said this on Monday at the flag-off of the nationwide Integrated Medical Outreach Programme (I-MOP) at the Read More
In order to bring succour to poor Nigerians, the federal government is set to flag off the Integrated Medical Outreach Programme (I-MOP) targeted at mothers and children between ages zero to two years. A statement released to newsmen Friday by the Head, Public Relations, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Mohammad Ohitoto, indicated that the executive director/CEO of NPHCDA, Read More
A civil society organisation (CSO), Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/ FoEN), Wednesday held a training workshop for journalists in Abuja on the dangers of trans fatty acids (TFAs), which are naturally available in meat and dairy products or industrially produced in unsafe quantities by partially hydrogenating vegetable oils used in cooking or baked products and consumed Read More
The Lagos state House of Assembly has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to ensure proper sensitisation of the residents of the state about the dreaded Coronavirus. This was raised under Matter of Urgent Public Importance by Hon. Akeem Shokunle (Oshodi/Isolo 1) during plenary Monday and it was seconded by Hon. Lukman Olumo (Ajeromi/Ifelodun 1). Shokunle, who chairs the House Committen on Read More
Kano state recorded a low prevalence of modern contraceptive use of 5.8 per cent in 2018. An expert on reproductive health, Habib Sadauki, stated this Thursday at high consultative meeting on family planning in the state. The conference was organised by development Research and Project Centre, dPRC. Mr Sadauki, a consultant gynecologist, recalled that the modern contraceptive use in Kano in Read More
A medical expert, Dr Bola Bello, has warned against sitting for too long on toilet seats as it could cause haemorrhoids. Bello, who is a consultant in a private facility said Thursday in Ilorin that sitting on toilet seats for more than 15 minutes was not healthy. ”It has become a norm now for people to enter toilets with Read More
Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho joined their Leicester City teammates handed out gifts to youngsters at the Leicester Royal Infirmary as part of their annual Christmas visit on Wednesday. The Club’s first team players including Ndidi and Iheanacho handed out gifts, which they contributed to. The entire first team squad had the opportunity to meet children who this Christmas may Read More
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with Kaduna state Ministry of Health and Fifth Chukker Polo and Country Club, will organise a one-day conference on the need to urgently end Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) in the state.Programme Coordinator/Head of Office of the Kaduna-based UNFPA Decentralized Office for Northern Nigeria, Ms Mariama Darboe, said in a statement on Sunday that Read More
The Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN) has lamented that Gestational Diabetes Millitus (GDM) is a serious threat to maternal and child health. Organising secretary, Katsina state chapter of the Association Hussaini Usman made the lamentation Wednesday during a free screening on diabetes organised by the association in collaboration with Roche Diabetes to pregnant mothers in the state held at General Read More
The Federal Ministry of Finance is considering ring-fencing funds generated from an increase in its value-added tax rates for spending on items such as education and health in an effort to make the higher levy more acceptable to taxpayers. The Nigerian Budget Office has proposed to raise the VAT rate to 7.5 per cent from 5.0 per cent in the Read More
Kidney stones are hard deposits of minerals and acid salts that stick together in concentrated urine. They can be painful when passing through the urinary tract, but usually don’t cause permanent damage rather it causes temporary pain and when lasted untreated can lead to blockage of kidney while the kidney will stop functioning yet if action not taken will cause Read More
A professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology at the College of Health Sciences, University of Abuja, Samuel Abayomi Asala, has said the university has graduated three sets of medical students. He made this known in a chat with Blueprint on the sidelines of the 38th inaugural lecture he delivered titled, From the Living Gut to the Speaking Dead Bone: A Journey Through Read More
The Chief Medical Director of the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, Dr Mahmoud Alhassan, has bagged Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN’s) outstanding award for his performance in health care delivery services. National president of MHWUN, Comrade Biobelemoye Josiah, said Dr Alhassan was chosen from among chief executives of federal tertiary hospitals in the country for the award, based Read More
The Survive Fistula Health Care Foundation (SFHF), a non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with Chrstofel Blind Mission (CBM), a woman’s health project has pledged to eradicate fistula in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Speaking to our correspondent in Kuje during the advocacy visit to the Gomo of Kuje, the traditional ruler of Kuje, Alhaji Haruna Tanko Jibrin in his palace, Read More
Veteran Reggae musician, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek aka ‘The Rainmaker’ has been hospitalised in a London hospital for an unknown but serious illness and may need financial assistance to pull through. According to a source close to the musician and one of the parties responsible for his wellbeing, Majek was flown out of the country on Wednesday Read More
Nigeria’s artificial intelligence and longevity consultant at the Africa AI for Healthcare Initiative of Insilico Medicine, Iraneus Ogu, has said a new technology for drug discovery that dramatically accelerates the process from years to weeks has been developed. Ogu disclosed this in Abuja Thursday while fielding questions from the media during an international conference on global health security. He said Read More
The three targets set by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) for the country’s new health ministers to work on, namely, making primary healthcare sustainable, interfacing with other ministries to achieve better health and encouraging federal government to increase health budget, if implemented, will go a long way at resolving the lingering crisis in Nigeria’s healthcare delivery. The association highlighted the Read More
The Federal Ministry of Health is strengthening the primary healthcare system to include diabetes management with foot care assessment and referral into the existing health care service at the primary healthcare level. The National Desk Officer, Diabetes, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Alayo Sopekan, stated this at the 6th Annual International Diabetes, Podiatry & Diabetes Foot Care workshop in Lagos. Read More
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